The U.S. environmental movement has devoted immense effort and political capital to blocking Keystone XL, the pipeline that would bring…
We examine the value of terroir, which refers to the special characteristics of a place that
impart unique qualities to the wine produced.…
The United States and the world need a revolution in energy technology—a revolution that would improve the performance of our energy…
Because of the global commons nature of climate change, international cooperation among nations will likely be necessary for meaningful…
In this paper, we provide new evidence regarding the pass-through of diesel and gasoline
taxes to prices, and how the estimated pass-…
Solar radiation management (SRM), a form of geoengineering, might be used to offset some fraction of the anthropogenic radiative forcing of…
Emissions of greenhouse gases linked with global climate change are affected by diverse aspects of economic activity, including individual…
The 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill posed near-term economic risks to the Gulf of Mexico region and raised questions about appropriate…
While this year's disaster at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi plant, the worst since Chernobyl in 1986, was caused by the one-two punch of a huge…
As America looks back on this 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, the war in Iraq looms large — and usually not in a good way. At…